University of Illinois at Chicago

Grace Duval is hoping that as she moves on with the next phase of her life, her age won't be such an issue.

The phase is graduate school and the age is 17.

Duval will graduate magna cum laude from Christopher Newport University Saturday, with plans to attend Penn State in the fall on scholarship to pursue a master's degree. That move will be much like an undergrad leaving home for the first time.

"I want people to view me as a scholar and not a 17-year-old," Duval said. "I don't want to be a wunderkind. I want to be someone who has worked equally hard as everyone else and deserves to be there as much as anyone who's 22, 23, 24, returning to...

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